join us emotionally this friday july 5, 7 pm!
OBJECT #10
9-track-Vinyl + Book with contributions by *
featuring
bossschnuffi - dj set
Firas Shehadeh - live
Nils Amadeus Lange with Mario Espinoza and Lisa Candinas performing a miniature of HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
Bar by Toni Schmale & Maria Ziegelböck
school is a space and collective founded in Vienna in 2011.
3 years after our 10 year anniversary, we are bringing into life a format/object that translates the performativity of school‘s events rather than illustrate what has happened over the years.
Relying on the power of Listening, we compiled a vinyl and booklet, focusing on the voice as an important performative tool and live messenger of text, as opposed to the hegemonic dominance of the written word.
Believing in the importance of strangers talking to each other, we started a series of conversations between people who had never met before.
This of course can only be a first attempt at getting somewhere new. We are very aware of the fact that in the western, white art context, we are being loud in asking for change, but slow in engaging with communities/people outside of our bubble. Knowing that communication with those who live under different conditions, with those who do not share similar privileges or beliefs is becoming an absolute necessity in the postcapitalist, hyperindividualistic, anthropocentric setting that we are living in; this might lead to facilitate future conversations across ethnicity, class, age, (dis)abilities, gender and religious faith.
We have extended our focus to the spoken word / the vocal by presenting a vinyl record with nine sound pieces consisting solely of voice.
*Hildegard von Bingen was many things: a composer, an abbess, a healer, and a botanist. She lived in the 12th century and, according to her avant-garde research, she was a remarkable visionary. Nils Amadeus Lange is fascinated both by her revolutionary discoveries in the field of plant studies and their healing powers, and by her self-taught compositions in liturgical music (music for worship), as well as her texts on the female orgasm.
Her writings, texts and scores, which remain accessible to this day, provide a wealth of material for the performer, in which queer characters and modes of action clearly emerge.
From this, Nils Amadeus Lange probes the performative nature of these tools, testing them, staging them like plant rituals, or using incense as a tool to disrupt senses and perceptions; all of which is set to a background of ancient music.
arsenic.ch/en/spectacle/hildegard-von-bingen-nils-amadeus-lange/
**Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure & Kingdom Gospel Club, Pille-Riin Jaik, Raed Yassin, Firas Shehadeh, Yasmina Haddad, Phillip Sollmann, Scott Mou, Pope Sangreta, a group of Iranian artists, pronunciation in Farsi: Roozbeh Gholami, Wally Salner, Anahita Asadifar, Nils Amadeus Lange, Philipp Furtenbach, Julia Grosse, Soraya Lutangu, Nadir Souirgi, Stanya Kahn, Hanna Schwarz, Tyler Cala
Stop the Genocide/End the Occupation/Free Palestine
